"When people look at my works, they often see only everyday things suspended in the air. But for me, each piece is a lesson in engineering and three-dimensional painting. I spend weeks balancing a wire, looking for the exact weight of a plastic bag or the precise color of a bottle cap. My work consists of finding a perfect, formal structure for objects that were born to be chaotic."
B. Wurtz, 2021
B. Wurtz’s sculptural practice is based on the collection of everyday objects whose main common characteristic is their apparent improbability of belonging to the realm of art. He then assembles and groups them through subtle and unexpected gestures, creating sculptures in which the original functionality of the elements is cancelled out while their aesthetic, poetic, and formal qualities are emphasized.
With remarkable mastery and minimal means, B. Wurtz reinterprets cultural ideas such as “less is more,” as well as artistic strategies like the “readymade” and assemblage, under the conceptual umbrella of life’s most basic needs: “1. sleeping 2. eating. keeping warm.” At the same time, with a sharp sense of humor, he exposes the futility of relying on expensive, spectacular, or monumental materials in order to create effective art.
